Using SNMP to monitor disk space on CentOS

The task here is to set up a Nagios test to monitor disk space on a CentOS box. Ive had the firewall protecting the remote CentOS box set up to allow UDP port 161 through so we need to set up SNMP on the box.

Start with an update

# yum update

Install the SNMP software

yum install net-snmp-utils
yum install net-snmp

Now set up the config file

cd /etc/snmp
mv snmpd.conf old_snmpd.conf

echo 'syslocation "My Location"' >> snmpd.conf
echo 'syscontact  "Dan Massey"' >> snmpd.conf
echo 'sysservices 76' >> snmpd.conf
echo '' >> snmpd.conf
echo 'rocommunity public localhost' >> snmpd.conf
echo 'rocommunity  mycommstring  ip address' >> snmpd.conf
echo '' >> snmpd.conf
echo 'disk /' >> snmpd.conf

Make snmpd start up when we reboot

chkconfig snmpd on

OK, so now we need to check its working locally:

# snmpwalk -v 2c -c public localhost system
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux my.domain.com 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Jul 16 21:12:30 UTC 2013 i686
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: NET-SNMP-MIB::netSnmpAgentOIDs.10
DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (458) 0:00:04.58
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: "Dan Massey"
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: my.domain.com
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: "My Location"
SNMPv2-MIB::sysServices.0 = INTEGER: 76
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORLastChange.0 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.1 = OID: SNMP-MPD-MIB::snmpMPDMIBObjects.3.1.1
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.2 = OID: SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmMIBCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.3 = OID: SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB::snmpFrameworkMIBCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.4 = OID: SNMPv2-MIB::snmpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.5 = OID: TCP-MIB::tcpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.6 = OID: IP-MIB::ip
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.7 = OID: UDP-MIB::udpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.8 = OID: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmBasicGroup
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.1 = STRING: The MIB for Message Processing and Dispatching.
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.2 = STRING: The MIB for Message Processing and Dispatching.
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.3 = STRING: The SNMP Management Architecture MIB.
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.4 = STRING: The MIB module for SNMPv2 entities
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.5 = STRING: The MIB module for managing TCP implementations
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.6 = STRING: The MIB module for managing IP and ICMP implementations
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.7 = STRING: The MIB module for managing UDP implementations
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.8 = STRING: View-based Access Control Model for SNMP.
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.1 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.2 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.3 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.4 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.5 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.6 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.7 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.8 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02

So that worked fine, let test the disk – i’m only monitoring the ‘/’ partition here so the test and the output looks like:

# /usr/bin/snmpwalk  -v 2c -c public localhost .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskIndex.1 = INTEGER: 1
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskPath.1 = STRING: /
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskDevice.1 = STRING: /dev/mapper/vg_cube-LogVol01
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskMinimum.1 = INTEGER: 100000
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskMinPercent.1 = INTEGER: -1
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskTotal.1 = INTEGER: 1918094464
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskAvail.1 = INTEGER: 1576078080
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskUsed.1 = INTEGER: 244582816
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskPercent.1 = INTEGER: 13
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskPercentNode.1 = INTEGER: 3
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskTotalLow.1 = Gauge32: 1918094464
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskTotalHigh.1 = Gauge32: 0
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskAvailLow.1 = Gauge32: 1576078080
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskAvailHigh.1 = Gauge32: 0
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskUsedLow.1 = Gauge32: 244582816
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskUsedHigh.1 = Gauge32: 0
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskErrorFlag.1 = INTEGER: noError(0)
UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskErrorMsg.1 = STRING: 

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